ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that soldiers who marched on his palace last week had had "nefarious aims" to stop reforms and he defended his relaxed attitude to them at the time saying he had sought to defuse tensions.
Several hundred armed soldiers descended on the palace on Oct. 10 and met Abiy in what the government initially said was a bid to press for a rise in pay.
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